Suet-sin's Sisters
Director：Yau Ching
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Running Time：8mins
Region：Hong Kong
Year：1999
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SYNOPSIS
Suet-Sin's Sisters is an unprecedented documentary of the oral history of lesbian life in Hong Kong. It seeks to interweave the life stories, jokes, family and social struggles of lesbians from two generations with allusions to a tradition of lesbian icons in Hong Kong popular culture. Through recontextualizing footage of the Cantonese Opera (butch/femme) couple: Pak Suet-Sin and Yum Kim Fei, and a soundtrack with songs of Teresa Tang, Suet-Sin's Sisters seeks to expose, reconstruct and actively speak to a much repressed tradition of lesbianism in the public sphere of Hong Kong.
Director Biography
Yau Ching (born 1966, Hong Kong) is a writer, filmmaker, moving image artist, scholar, and educator. An important figure in pushing the development of moving image in Hong Kong, Yau was a member of Hong Kong—based new media art organisation Videotage at its founding stages. Over the past thirty years, Yau has created ten moving image works and four feature films, expressing her ongoing exploration of home, gender, and history.
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